@MLS_Buzz

The soccer world from an American/MLS perspective. Not a journalist or an insider.

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Joined December 2018
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I enjoy following MLS clubs and seeing how they try to push the game forward, but I’ve lost interest in advocating for MLS quality as a whole If the league office is content with a quarter century of losing on the international stage, I don’t see why I should care more than them
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Weird part of this Club World Cup is European teams playing competitive, important games and it's dark outside in the United States.
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An IQ test on the timeline is anyone complaining about attendance at the club world cup 35,000 fans per game is better than every league in the world other than Premier League and Bundesliga. Venue selection should've been better but I promise the next CWC won't average more.
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Miami is spending over $1 billion on their new stadium. MLS has raised the price of everything and made Miami one of the most "valuable" clubs in the world AND YET, OVER 1/3 OF THEIR ROSTER MAKES $150K OR LESS Their pockets have grown 10x the rate of the quality. BY DESIGN
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If you want to know what it looks like when a league really goes for it despite not having a strong domestic player base, it's clubs like Al-Hilal that spend at every position. MLS has been using DPs as lipstick on pigs for around 20 years now.
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Noah Allen is starting at center back today against the European champions. He makes $125k PER YEAR. Marquinos, starting for PSG at CB, makes that in under 3 days.
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Everything happening to Miami right now was preventable and predictable. They could very easily have attracted the talent necessary to not look ridiculous The lack of quality is by design to keep rich people rich while giving us as shitty of a product as they can get by with
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Where were you when Eurosnobs learned that good soccer could be played outside of Europe? This week has been a death blow to the Eurolarpers. Keep your heads up kings, don't let your fedoras fall.
MLS Buzz@MLS_Buzz18 Apr 2024
The way Euro-centric soccer fans talk about the Club World Club is exactly how NBA fans talk about international competition I'm amazed that actual adults don't understand that just because *you* don't care about something, doesn't mean it doesn't matter to anyone
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> calls soccer "footy" > Assesses payer talent using FIFA ratings > Is a part of a West Ham fan club based out of Des Moines > thinks Wolverhampton would win Copa Libertaodres > Calls the Club World Cup "preseason" Horrible week for this phenotype
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MLS having 1 club go far at the Club World Cup would do more for the reputation of American club soccer than 1 million gimmicks like Leagues Cup or some overcomplicated playoff system Winning internationally, first in CONCACAF & then the world, is the key that unlocks everything
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If an MLS club gets out of the group stage and wins a knockout game (unlikely, but possible), that would echo out over the conversation around the league longer than any single goal clip, DP signing, attendance metric.. The ticket to prominence is winning internationally.
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Coming back to this account to say that for anyone who is disappointed in the way that MLS has treated its fans and the game over the last few years, this is an opportunity to support an alternative This isn't about taking down MLS, but a more organic alternative is welcome.
United Soccer League
@USL_HQ19 Mar 2025
Promotion and relegation is coming! The USL becomes the first professional sports league in the U.S. to adopt this global system, marking a major milestone that will reshape the future of American soccer. Read more: bit.ly/42dDNom
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What I don't understand is why anyone would mock USL for trying this. From a business perspective, it's what they have to do. There is not a long-term future in being a minor league. They're putting their balls on the table and I respect it.
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The big question I have is what is the buy-in at the lowest level. If it takes a $5 million expansion fee just to get a team off the ground then that takes a lot of edge off in terms of the amount of smaller teams that can really carve their way up.
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One step further away from this horrible tournament for Liga MX is good news Liga MX has to realize MLS needs them more than the reverse. End the traveling circus and reclaim some competitive fire in the region by doing everything possible to get back into CONMEBOL competitions
Ben Wright@benwright16 Dec 2024
Liga MX Commissioner Mikel Arriola: "We have just approved the new Leagues Cup format... We are no longer going to concentrate there, we are going to play during the week... we are not going to interrupt the Liga MX, fortunately, because the request of the clubs was very clear."
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There is no format of the tournament that will work. It's like trying to make bread out of dirt and sand. It's just a watered-down, cash grab version of an already existing and unpopular tournament (CONC. Champions Cup). It has no long-term future.
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There’s no question he could get 2x or 3x this amount in MLS He shouldn’t, given he can come later in his career and still get a fat check in his mid-30s from an MLS team, but it’s crazy that he’s currently making around the same as what Michael Bradley made in MLS 10 years ago
Fabrizio Romano
@FabrizioRomano15 Dec 2024
🔴⚫️🇺🇸 AC Milan are closing in on new deal for Christian Pulisic after excellent season again. @MatteMoretto 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 New contract valid until June 2028 plus one more year as option or straight to 2029. Pulisic will be among the best paid players at Milan, around €4/5m net per year.
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I was a big fan of the move over to Apple TV for MLS because I figured the influx of money would bring a substantial change in player quality, but that didn't happen Winning MLS Cup is simply inconsequential in the larger soccer sphere because of quality, thus interest suffers
SE LLAMA SOCCER@sellamasoccer13 Dec 2024
La #MLSCup 2024 reunió a solo 533.000 telespectadores, según @Nielsen, entre las señales de Fox, Fox Deportes (televisión linear) y Apple TV (streaming). #MLS #mlstv • 427.000 en Big Fox • 41.000 en Fox Deportes • 65.000 en Apple TV Estos números son un absoluto desastre.
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1. History and personal allegiances 2. Consequential OR high quality soccer These are the ingredients you need to be a league the masses will go out of their way to watch. Right now, MLS has neither the rich history OR quality of competitors. You can't be average at both.
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The first ingredient there is what MLS has been attempting to mooch off of LMX. MLS knows they don't have a Club America or Chivas But that kind of aura can only come with time. For now, they have to focus on playing consequential international games and increasing the quality.
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